CSI404 Computer Organization (Summer 2000)


Instructor: Paliath Narendran
Office: LI-95B
Phone: 442-3387
Email: dran at cs dot albany dot edu
Office Hours: M & Thu 3:30 - 4:30pm

Text: Morris Mano, Computer System Architecture (Third Edition) , Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1993.

Supplementary Text: David A. Patterson and John L. Hennessy, Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface , Morgan Kaufmann, San Mateo, CA, 1994.

Class Hours: MTWThF 12:30 - 2:50pm


  • Course policies

  • paper on BDDs by Henrik Reif Anderson

  • All exams will be held during class hours.

    Homeworks are due at the beginning of class.


  • Practice Problems 1 ( postscript version , jpeg version ).

  • Practice Problems 2 ( postscript version , jpeg version ).

  • Practice Problems 3 ( postscript version , jpeg version: page 1, page 2 ).

  • Practice Problems 4 ( postscript version , jpeg version: page 1, page 2 ).

  • Practice Problems 5 ( postscript version , PDF version ).

  • Practice Problems 6 ( postscript version , PDF version ).

  • Practice Problems 7 ( postscript version , PDF version ).

  • Homework 1 ( Postscript version , jpeg version ).

  • Homework 2 ( Postscript version , jpeg version ).

  • Transparencies on control logic (Chapter 5) (Postscript version, PDF version)

  • Transparencies on Microprogramming (Chapter 7) (Postscript version, PDF version)

  • Transparencies on CPU organization (Chapter 8) (Postscript version, PDF version)

  • Transparencies on Arithmetic (Chapter 10) (Postscript version, PDF version)

  • Notes on Prime Implicants

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